Finest Hour 170, Fall 2015 Page 38 Review by Richard A McConnell Mike Lepine, Churchill and the Generals , Danann Publishing, 2015, 136 pages, £2999/$5500 ISBN 978-0993016944...

Finest Hour 170, Fall 2015 Page 11 By Fred Glueckstein On 9 December 1905, Winston Churchill was given his first government post by Prime Minister Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as the new Under-Secretary for...

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

It will be better to engage Germany on new frontiers … Naval command of the Baltic must be secured.

Introduced by Richard M Langworth Churchill wrote two books about his experiences in South Africa London to Ladysmith, his first Boer War book, is a remarkable read, with startling observations for a...

In January 1943, Churchill met up with Roosevelt and de Gaulle. Stalin had declined to attend, citing the ongoing fighting in Stalingrad as the reason he couldn’t get away. This Anglo-American ‘summit’ at Casablanca (in French Morocco) addressed the specifics of tactical procedure, allocation of resources and the broader issues of diplomatic policy. Ultimately, though, what the Casablanca Declaration made clear was that the Allies would accept nothing less than the ‘unconditional surrender’ of Germany. Stalin was reassured.

In 1917, when Germany began sinking ships that were bringing food (and military equipment) to Britain, and the country had just six weeks' food left, the Government initiated the rationing of food supplies. Even after the end of the war, sugar and butter remained rationed until 1920. Bread was subsidized but in 1917, British people were told to eat twenty five per cent less. Even the fighting troops had their food rationed. Compare . The US faced similar issues during the First World War. The country was in a severe economic depression, with many living in poverty, and .

Professor Richard Toye (University of Exeter) and Dr Warren Dockter (University of Cambridge) discuss President Roosevelt’s relationship with Winston Churchill during the Second World War https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/HqKWO6viisw copyright: Dr Warren...

Churchill, wanting to inspect the recently bombed areas, travelled by launch as the threat of unexploded bombs in the city made it dangerous to travel by road; Clementine went with him...